Driving in heavy rain, engine took on water

[turboglenn]

Just wanted to put this out and see if any one's had an issue like i did last night. I put it in this section since i guess it's the block and head areas.

I was driving in flooding rains last night and the car seemed low on power but i wasn't too worried. Then it started dieing, i would keep it floored to only see a few hundred RPM, then it would seem to clear up and let me drive a bit and then started again.

I"m thinking i may have taken enough water in teh filter to start drownding out the spark, but i've never had that happen in the past so i don't even know how possible that really is. I mean i've had a distributor get wet and lose spark, but this is a DIS system and the only part near the ground was my air filter.

any thoughts?

I guess i'm going to start double time on getting my good engine back together in case i did some real damage.

 

[TunaTalon]

The problem could have been electrical. After cleaning my Talon's engine with a pump up sprayer it ran ok for a while then very rough for a while until it dried up.

Hmmm flashback. My 1949 Desoto would die after running through puddles and only the sacrifice of a tee shirt on the plugs to make it run again.

 

[phunny]

Well I did the same thing a few years back. Except I actually hydrolocked my motor. Snapped number 4 rod and bent the crank . Not exactly sure what you did, but I'd let it dry out and see what it does. Might have some internal damage.

 

[turboglenn]

well, after a rough start it got me to work and back jsut fine. I think it could have eitherbeen electrical ( i mounted my fuse box under the fender) or it may have been the filter sucking up a ton of water as it was soaking wet still this am and drowning the car out when it needed air.

 

[DougR]

Glenn.. Clean that filter, and use compressed air to make shure that Fuse box is Dry..

This might be a good time to Seal it up water tight with Silicon....

 

[Defiant]

If you didn't stall it, especially from hydrolock, you should be fine. You may even have cleaner combustion chambers now.